Author Archive: Tim Wenger
ANNOUNCING ‘COORS LIGHT’S KICKOFF TO SUMMER’ PARTY AT THE 2015 CAPITOL HILL PEOPLE’S FAIR
Featuring a Special Performance by The Samples and a Movie in the Park: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Denver, CO – May 5, 2015 – Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods, Inc., (CHUN) is excited to announce that this year’s festival will include Coors Light’s Kickoff to Summer party – a special performance by Colorado homegrown band […]
Colorado Music Hall of Fame announces George Sparks to Board of Directors
DENVER – 5/4/15 -The Colorado Music Hall of Fame, a non-profit organization founded in 2011 to inspire music fans with the power of Colorado music history, announces that George Sparks, the President and CEO of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, has joined the CMHOF board of directors. Sparks’ passion is educational public […]
Why Jazz Matters: Track 14
by Norman Provizer On June 8, the band Big Head Todd and the Monsters returns to Red Rocks Amphitheater for the seventeenth time. Over its long run, Big Head Todd went from a local group begging for gigs to one with a very high national profile playing major venues. In this sense, along with bands […]
The DBC- Out of the Blues
by Thom Jackson The DBC are absolutely one of Denver’s hardest working bands of 2015. With a significant amount of time on the road and in the studio, the band is clawing their way up through a combination of raw talent and hard work. Their new EP Out of the Blues is an eclectic blend […]
The Manager’s Corner- May
by Chris Daniels I’ve managed my own band for 31 years and I’m in the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. All that’s nice but today’s music business is changing at light-speed and you have to be more engaged in the ‘biz’ than ever. Some things have not changed, careers are still built on some tried […]
Indie Acoustic Project Announces 2015 Winners
The Indie Acoustic Project is proud to announce the winners of the IAP’s “Best CDs of 2014” Awards. The winners in each of 7 categories were selected from among the 3 finalists in each category. It is the position of the IAP that all of the 21 CDs selected as finalists were in fact the […]
Wendy Woo Band- Tipping Point
by Tim Wenger Wendy Woo Band has been working to master the radio-friendly pop-rock style and the new album Tipping Point is a big step in the right direction. Wendy Woo brings an authoritative, but tenderly appealing, vocal command that dominates the group’s sound and her lyricism is very personal- almost as if she is […]
Caramel Carmela Doing Something Fresh For Denver
by Tim Wenger Caramel Carmela just might be the one band that has the ability to cast a different light on Denver’s music scene to the rest of the country. Instead of the usual indie-folk-PBR-fedora scene that can never seem to give Broadway (or Colfax, or downtown) a break, these guys are a modern blip […]
Red Fox Run
by Tru Blu Every now and again we get to review an album that’s time capsule worthy. If you were to find Red Fox Run’s self titled album 100 years from now under the rubble of Denver City and give it a listen you would know that they were making waves in this land locked […]
Doves And Wolves
by Thom Jackson A fresh take on indie rock is exactly what Denver needed, and is exactly what Doves and Wolves is shooting for with their debut EP. Vocally, I was reminded at times of The Cure- emotional lyrics set under heavy effect, and presented solidly over mellow (if sometimes melodramatic) rock music. The thing […]
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